26Legos Minifigures
Legos Minifigures were originally yellow to avoid assigning a specific ethnicity to allow fans to assign their own roles to the Minifigures.
27. Lego produced 381 million tires in 2011, making them the world’s largest rubber tire manufacturer by the number of units produced.
28. On the LEGO model of the Back to the Future time machine, the destination date is permanently set to January 28, 1958, the patent date for the 1st LEGO brick.
29. In 1996, Lego gave bricks to a Polish artist named Zbigniew Libera asking him to make a set for them. He decided to make a recreation of Auschwitz.
30. There are a total of 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks in 'The Lego Movie'. Recreating the movie would require 15,080,330 Lego pieces, with 183 different types of Lego Minifigures.
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31Lego Pain
Professionals who walk over hot coals and broken glass have confirmed that walking over Lego bricks is more painful.
32. Mindscape, the game development company that developed Lego Island, fired their development team a day before release so that they wouldn't have to pay them bonuses.
33. In 2004, corporate attorney Nathan Sawaya quit his lucrative job to build Lego professionally so that he could “get away from the daily grind.” His sculptures now command six-figure prices each.
34. The Lego Company has a secure, fireproof, temperature and climate-controlled underground vault in Denmark containing every Lego set ever developed by the company.
35. A 14 karat gold LEGO brick was given out in the early 80s to employees who had worked at the Germany LEGO factory for over 25 years. They are valued at nearly $15,000.
